Motivational Quotes

Evil

No evil shall happen to the just.

- Bible

Best Quotes about Evil

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Edward II

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

West, Mae

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Seneca

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Mirabeau, Gabriel Riqueti

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist

Baudelaire, Charles

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it.

Gracian, Baltasar

Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Auden, W. H.

11.

Evil spelled backward is live.

12.

One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

Eliot, George

13.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

14.

Evil draws men together.

Aristotle

15.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

Maistre, Joseph De

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

Arendt, Hannah

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Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Virgil

18.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

19.

The love of evil is the root of all money.

Proverb, American

20.

Whoever rewards evil for good, evil will not depart from their house.

Bible

21.

Of two evils, it is always best to vote for the least hypocritical.

Proverb, American

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All histories do show, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The evil that we know is best.

Titus Maccius Plautus

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The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

Ayn Rand

25.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Maistre, Joseph De

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But evil is wrought by want of thought as well as want of heart!

Hood, Thomas

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Gandhi, Mahatma

28.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome

Proverb

29.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

Lerner, Max

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Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.

Proverb, Ethiopian

31.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

Euripides

33.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Horton, Doug

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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

35.

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.

Mcgoohan, Patrick

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No evil shall happen to the just.

Bible

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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Ovid

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Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

Eliot, T. S.

40.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Bellow, Saul

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato

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There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance.

Socrates

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The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

Crowley, Aleister

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It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Mary Renault

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Overcome evil with good. [St. Paul]]

Bible

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.-

Carlin, George

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All evils are equal when they are extreme.

Corneille, Pierre

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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

James, William

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There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.